I would say in some circumstances that schooling of whatever kind is abuse,
it is certainly at this current time intelectual and ideological abuse
because the current national curriculum is evil incarnate, political
machination and inclucation of competitive values teaching above all the
notion that those who don't make the grade are retrograde.
Why is everyone so addicted to the notion of a school at al? it is just a
form of social oppression teaching everything about how to know ones place
in society, accept conventional assignments of wisdom, but nothing about
knowlege and the joy of lerning.
For all the rhetoric, it is the basic structure of schools the whole ethos
of the profession of teaching that is total anathema. Children have nothing
to do with it at all.
The whole focus of everything is wrong, while employers (who are amongst the
most funtionally iliterate of citizens) and perverted business interests are
given licence to ride roughshod over any real understanding of any notions
of humanity at all beyond there narrow and totally hedonistic self interest
(which goes for politicians too) there is no hope.
Fuck the tests and league tables, the exams, the bloody controlling
environment, the false consciosness of "I'm allright jack" unions and let
children grow.
Larry
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Hazel Frost
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> Subject: Re: [theglobalvoice4inclusion] School inclusion 'can be abuse'
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>
> Couldn't agree more. I've been a "mainstream" and a "special school"
> teacher, and I've seen at first hand experience the effects of the stupid
> choice that parents are forced to take between having their kids
> segregated in special ed, or having their kids segregated in mainstream,
> and with the kids ending up being passed between the two, and not having
> their needs properly met in either. True inclusion with proper resources
> has got to be the way forward.
>
> Hazel
>
>
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